Whoa. Really? Who knew.
Brian, over at The Conservatives, has a post up looking at James Carville’s recent survey, which involved a discussion with a bunch of conservatives.
You and I could immediately guess what came of this, but it was news to Carville and the left.
Conservatives are not racist.
Conservatives are convinced Obama is pushing socialism.
Conservatives don’t care for the GOP leadership either.
I could have told you all those things. Naturally, though, liberals aren’t so sure about the race thing.
what? conservaties oppose 0 because of his plans and policies...
DONTREADONME Friday, October 16th at 4:36PM EDT (link)and not because of race, wow, just a stunning revelation. BTW how much can I get paid to act like I am doing a study then just report what I already know? /snark off
“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
Mary made him say that.
buzzyboop Friday, October 16th at 4:53PM EDT (link)Title self-explanatory.
Cheers, Frank
Yep, Mary
peg_c Friday, October 16th at 7:21PM EDT (link)You beat me to it.
If I were married to this Gollum nightmare, I’d have kicked him out of the boudoir years ago until he toed the line. He’d totally be my slave by now or no “soup” for him.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Looking at the comments section
aesthete Friday, October 16th at 9:42PM EDT (link)is quite fascinating: presumably well-educated, intelligent liberals are currently throwing a hissy-fit over the fact that the outcome of Carville’s study don’t fit their narrative, afterwhich they start talking about how Republicans only look at news and evidence which backs up their points.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
That Carville survey is absolutely fascinating
bs Friday, October 16th at 10:05PM EDT (link)One of the key aspects is that it is not a mocking, leftist-promoting piece. It is simply a report on the findings of their study, and I believe it’s fairly on-target, Brian’s observations about the “religious imagery” notwithstanding.
That will actually be a good tool for the Left to have. Now that one of their own has taken a fairly even-handed look at the conservatives, they’ll have better insights on how to deal with us. Whether they’ll actually USE those is another question altogether.
I wish someone on the Right would do a similar study.
Decorum is fo’ suckas
Their focus group was older, white, Southern men
aesthete Friday, October 16th at 10:18PM EDT (link)So religious imagery may have well been evident in their discussion (it was when I lived there). I doubt that that would be the case among other conservative groups (younger conservatives, the Midwest and West, etc.). I, too, was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it appears to have been a good-faith study. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that their conclusions are correct, but it is better than a bad-faith study with a pre-determined outcome.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
Their conclusions seemed pretty reasonable to me
bs Friday, October 16th at 10:26PM EDT (link)I didn’t see anything that really sounded outrageous, but I didn’t go over it in gory detail either.
Decorum is fo’ suckas
My impression as well nt
aesthete Friday, October 16th at 11:13PM EDT (link)Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
The two key assessments
Uma Richie Friday, October 16th at 10:48PM EDT (link)that I read from this are:
1. Conservatives are disenchanted with the GOP leadership.
2. Independents are still eating up liberal talking points.
The resulting Democratic strategy, if they do not get caught up in their own biases, should be to suppress the conservative vote by portraying the Republican candidate in a given general election as a Washington insider or a party establishment type.
If Carville is correct on point two, I fear for our country.
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“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -Lech Walesa
The Republican candidate can counter with religious references
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Saturday, October 17th at 1:40AM EDT (link)That is certainly not anything that Washington insiders do.
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
this is amazing
kyle8 Friday, October 16th at 11:30PM EDT (link)as far as religious imagery. You can find a whole lot more of it in any group of African Americans meeting for any reason.
Of course that flies right past the left.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle